[lbo-talk] Chris asks another obscure question

[WD]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Can somebody out there tell me what guards in US
> prisons are armed with? As in, on their person when on
> duty, and what's in the armory? What about guards in
> mental institutions wih violent inmates?

I bet it depends on the state and what the security level of the
inmate area is (maximum, minimum, etc.).  I was at a medium security
prison on Monday for work and the guard I was dealing with didn't seem
to have any weapon at all.

The Smoking Gun has a U.S. BOP training video on handling
confrontations with inmates:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/tsgtv/index.html?id=CP12-05&link=TSGTVeflk

-WD